I finished this on my first game after getting this combat mission ( 39 planes shot down), remember you can choose between Tier V up to VIII, just choose whatever you have with decent AA, and there are plenty of random games with 2 CV each side.

Seems to be intermittent, seems people were able to log in or even play game(s) earlier today.
Now I can understand people want to play their game( as do I), but it really is not the end of the world...

wow, we really going to go that way? Insulting people right away.. 60 seconds is still downtime, maybe **you** are not doing your job properly. And you want a sticker with a smiley because you work in the gambling sector? I work in finance, so? :P

Having worked for over 20 years in IT now, I can tell you there is no system that will ever guarantee you will not get any downtime. Even redundant data centers, in separate geological locations can experience simultaneous technical issues.